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My fingers are shaking I type this. I’m not sure exactly what I’m posting, other than it’s a surreal advert for Saint’s Row: The Third. I have a vague fear that it might be attempting to subliminally control me, but I feel fine so far. Anyway, I showed it to John and he demanded we share it with you. And that everyone buys 12 copies of Saint’s Row: The Third and gives all their possessions away to the New World Order.

According to Mr Walker, who has completed the game: “Prof Genki’s Ethical doodah is a game within the game, which is just about shooting at people in mascot costumes while avoiding shooting cardboard cutouts of pandas.” That doesn’t even begin to cover what you’re about to witness. Let me end in the manner of Crimewatch: “don’t have nightmares, do sleep well.”

I have this image of the GTA team watching all this SR3 stuff and saying “Oh look – humour”…

Theirs is safely tucked-up in a shoebox under someone’s desk y’see – has been since GTA:VC was made – and that’s why I don’t give a shit about GTA and think this might be worth a punt (tho I’m still nervous about the quality of the PC version given that SR2 took about 2 years to be playable and even then, only when modders got involved).

I watched it yesterday while on a mini SRTT information binge and initially thought it was going to be great, as I do like Tim and Eric’s Lynchian nightmare comedy. but it drags on way too long, isn’t that sharp, and is at odds with the source material Genki in the game is meant to be a wacky extreme Japanese style gameshow, but this thing isn’t at all like that, apart from having Japanese text at certain points. The ‘vibe’ is quite different from the game. No consequence crazy cartoon violence becomes sinister and unsettling, which is their trademark so I assume Volition knew what the results were likely to be.

It does, however, contain big melons and as a lascivious pervert, I extracted much enjoyment from that aspect.

So this is like a more commercially friendly version of a film about slicing eyeballs? I did notice when I think about it that the cartoon sequence was a reference to the intro sequence to monkey magic but that was a funny show, in English translation at least. Perhaps this is trying to make an artistic point about how all comedy is ultimately a degenerate form of human expression.

And heads up, the THQ Store is actually a good choice to pre-order from (in the US, at least). Full price, but you get the “season pass” for free, which traditionally means most of the DLCs. So if you expect to buy the DLCs, that might be one of the best deals you will see for a year or so.

Ok so clearly they have planned to ramp up the weirdness and duck charges of racism by making their strangely accurate parody of a Japanese gameshow without any Japanese people.
That’s genius, I tell you.

I’ve never been entertained by Tim & Eric. Their work just grates on my nerves. It’s like two office cut-ups decided to make a TV show because the boozed-up people at the office holiday party giggled at their antics.

It’s even more annoying when they have genuinely funny & talented performers on their show and suck all the funny and talent right out of them.

Want to know how to ensure I’ll never buy your game? Connect it in any way to “Tim and Eric” or “Delocated.” Poor Adult Swim, what the hell happened to you guys? At least you’ve still got the Venture Brothers…